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"In the right-wing media world, the incentive is to come up with the most outrageous and ridiculous things that you can possibly say in order to get famous," says former conservative journalist @mattsheffield. "That's how Rush Limbaugh became a nationally known radio host."
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"It's not just that the Republicans became snowflakes themselves...it's that they sure do like to indulge in really violent rhetoric." As election conspiracies and death threats fly, Mehdi takes on the GOP's "civility" double standard:
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Will Trump really try to preempt Biden's inauguration with his own 2024 announcement as rumored? "I am on the edge of my seat, to tell you the truth," says Trump biographer @GwendaLBlair. Either way, she says, he probably will claim his inauguration crowd was bigger than Biden's.
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"How did a mask become so divisive, so polarizing?" Mehdi asks @kavitapmd.
"Americans tend to kind of fall into exceptionalism. We don't like to be told to do things, period," she says, adding: "We just as a society have decided that somehow science is just not important."
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.@RBReich is glad Joe Biden’s talking about forgiving some student debt, but “I think he could go farther,” he tells Mehdi. “The president can do this cancellation by executive order,” he adds. “He can do this, and it would be a huge stimulus.”
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Mehdi: "Putting [Republicans'] hypocrisy to the side for one moment..."
@RBReich: "If you put their hypocrisy to one side, there's nothing left!"
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"Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. Senators, you've not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop." Amid threats of violence, Georgia election official @GabrielSterling, a Republican, sends the GOP a blistering message.
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As Congress struggles (again) to bring billions in needed relief to Americans, @mehdirhasan talks to @RBReich
Tonight at 7:00 on Peacocktv.com
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.@CornelWest confirms he voted for Joe Biden against Trump, "a neofascist gangster." But now, he says, "We gotta deal with the neoliberal disaster of Biden and Harris. And we've got to be very honest about it."
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"My assessment of Brother Barack is even worse now," after the publication of ex-president Obama's memoir, says @CornelWest, "because he tries to engage in rationalizations of his captivity to Wall Street greed...Where is the wrestling with assassinating American citizens?"
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Attacks on Rev. Raphael Warnock's faith, as the Democrat runs for Senate in Georgia, reveal the GOP's hypocrisy over who gets to be religious in the public sphere, Mehdi says:
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The assassination of a top Iran nuclear scientist is a move by Israel and its allies "to get in some last licks" before Trump leaves office, says @barbaraslavin1, "but also to spoil the chances for a rapid return" to the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement under Biden.
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.@tparsi explains why an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed weeks before Trump’s WH departure: “What the Israelis and the Saudis and the Emiratis fear more than anything else is not that Iran would have a pathway to a bomb, but that they would have a pathway to Washington.”
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As the Georgia runoff nears, GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are spending a lot of their campaign time “trying to convince the same base that came out for them just a few weeks ago, to ignore the president's rants" about rigged elections, says @bluestein.
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Biden's "got to aim big," @KevinMKruse tells Mehdi. "If you come out of a position of compromise from the state, nothing is going to happen."
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"Normalcy isn't going to be normal," @ProfCAnderson tells Mehdi. "We need to really think about how close we came and what we need to do make sure we never do this dance again."
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